The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[rauschwerk]

Concerti Armonici - are they by Pergolesi, Wassenauer or Ricciotti?

Who cares apart from musicologists? They are damn good pieces which give much pleasure.

[cloughie]

Who cares apart from musicologists? They are damn good pieces which give much pleasure.

Spot on and don’t tell the hipp crowd, but I Musici or ASMF Marriner do them beautifully!

[underthecountertenor]

Read the Wikipedia article on 'La fille mal gardee' more carefully and I think you will find that the main motif of the Clog Dance music was indeed written by one Peter Ludwig Hertel. John Lanchbery fashioned it into the piece we know today. Hérold was only one of the composers featured in that famous Ashton/Royal Ballet production and he had nothing to do with that number.

Mea maxima culpa.

The iPlayer listed it as by Hérold, but I should know better than to trust that as a resource (see the occasions when Dame Ethel Smyth has been depicted as Ethel Smith the Hammond organ queen).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Who cares apart from musicologists? They are damn good pieces which give much pleasure.

So surely the correct composer should receive the credit? Shouldn't everyone care, if only for the sake of basic fairness?

[cloughie]

So surely the correct composer should receive the credit? Shouldn't everyone care, if only for the sake of basic fairness?

Well yes, but it seems there were a lot of folk singers in the past called Trad!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well yes, but it seems there were a lot of folk singers in the past called Trad!

Indeed - but their work isn't attributed to somebody else! Credit where credit's due, I say.

[cloughie]

Indeed - but their work isn't attributed to somebody else! Credit where credit's due, I say.

Anon?

[Bryn]

Anon?

Who's making a name for herself.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Anon?

That isn't "somebody else" - it's "we don't know".

[Serial_Apologist]

That isn't "somebody else" - it's "we don't know".

Oh, I always thought it was someone who just went on, anon, anon, anon - rather like me!

[oddoneout]

When I switched the radio on this morning I had to double check the clock as what I was hearing sounded just like SK - over-enunciating schoolmarm.
It would be such a shame if GM becomes an SK clone. Mistakes I can live with - if only because some of them at least I don't realise are mistakes, higgorant soul that I am(ideal am schedule fodder see...)- but not the voice delivery and apparent disdain for the listener.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When I switched the radio on this morning I had to double check the clock as what I was hearing sounded just like SK - over-enunciating schoolmarm.
It would be such a shame if GM becomes an SK clone. Mistakes I can live with - if only because some of them at least I don't realise are mistakes, higgorant soul that I am(ideal am schedule fodder see...)- but not the voice delivery and apparent disdain for the listener.

How can you confuse the two? True, they both have the BBC attitude problem (to very different degrees), but Suzy has a pronounced estuary accent, whereas Georgia is more RP.

[Paulie55]

When I switched the radio on this morning I had to double check the clock as what I was hearing sounded just like SK - over-enunciating schoolmarm.
It would be such a shame if GM becomes an SK clone. Mistakes I can live with - if only because some of them at least I don't realise are mistakes, higgorant soul that I am(ideal am schedule fodder see...)- but not the voice delivery and apparent disdain for the listener.

Conversely, when I switched on Radio 3in the car on the way to work, did my ears deceive me when GM announced we were now going to hear Chabrier's Espna arranged by Ravel? Afterwards, instead of correcting the error, she said we didn't actually hear Ravel's version. Am I missing something here?

[Stanfordian]

Conversely, when I switched on Radio 3in the car on the way to work, did my ears deceive me when GM announced we were now going to hear Chabrier's Espna arranged by Ravel? Afterwards, instead of correcting the error, she said we didn't actually hear Ravel's version. Am I missing something here?

This is lack of really basic knowledge. It seems to me the main quality one needs to be R3 presenter these days is confidence.

[Pulcinella]

Conversely, when I switched on Radio 3in the car on the way to work, did my ears deceive me when GM announced we were now going to hear Chabrier's Espna arranged by Ravel? Afterwards, instead of correcting the error, she said we didn't actually hear Ravel's version. Am I missing something here?

Maybe tomorrow we'll get Chabrier's orchestration of Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole.